They’re fun, funny and wickedly insightful. These videos are nothing short of excellent (both in whole and in part) and I cannot recommend them highly enough for anybody interesting in film (regardless of whether you’re an already-hardened academic or a novice just looking to know a little more about those movies with the alien robots that sometimes turn into cars for no particular reason). No, she makes full-on, meticulously researched, academic video essays on everything from the histories of pop icons to an interdisciplinary analysis of Michael Bay’s Transformer movies.Īnd when I found myself with some time to kill the other day, it’s this last series of videos - her Whole Plate series - that I found myself rewatching in their entirety: verging on two-hours of applying cinematic mainstays like genre theory, auteur theory, feminist theory and Marxist theory to some of the biggest, baddest, explosioniest movies to ever be thrown up on the silver screen. She doesn’t make dinky little videos that you use to pass the time between cat memes popping up on Facebook. Sometimes you just need a little bite-sized something or other to get you through your morning cup of coffee.Īnd although I have many go-to videographers clogging up my subscription feed, the incomparable Lindsay Ellis is perhaps my very favorite. I mean, sometimes you just don’t have the time or energy to devote to a full 90+ minute movie. If anything, I’m actually more prone to watching YouTube videos than I am curling up on the couch to watch a feature-length film. While anybody who’s so much as glanced at my writings could tell you I’m a bit of a movie buff (translation: I’m utterly obsessed), that’s not actually everything I watch.
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